YAEPT alert! [Re: Spelling pronunciations (was: rhotic miscellany)]

That is definitely the case for me as well. Meanwhile, /Ent/ can only
mean, well, one of those tree critters in LoTR, whose name never struck
me as a pun on anything.
Similarly, pronouncing "again" as /@'gejn/ or, worse, /ej'gejn/, sounds
stilted and artificial; it's something said to force an old poem to
rhyme when it no longer does so naturally in (my dialect of) modern
English.
-Marcos